Paul Moore

IMO all of this is missing the key point here, which is[^1] that when pip creates files which are, *from pip's perspective*, temporary, it uses the stdlib temporary file management...

> I guess this is where I am a little confused, would PyPi be able to extract metadata from this release: https://pypi.org/project/awscli/0.8.0/#files? No, because it's sdist-only. But all *wheels* will...

Ah, I get you now - thanks for the clarification. Given backfilling, maybe we just prefer projects with (compatible) wheels over sdist-only ones? I'm handwaving a lot here as it's...

I agree - the "downloading lots of large files" issue is solved by separate METADATA files, so unless there's evidence that this approach solves some other real-world issue, I'm not...

As the author of the linked comment, I'll add that the key new development is that `uv` has implemented parallel installs. It would be interesting to know how they designed...

PRs welcome. However, one potential upside of downloading the wheels is that if the dry run is followed by an actual install, the install itself will be faster as everything...

> can't users now set the path of where they want their pyc cache to be I suspect the number of users who do this is vanishingly small. The key...

I agree with @notatallshaw, I'm afraid. I am mildly against the idea of an "upgrade" command. Either it's simply an alias for `pip install --upgrade`, in which case I don't...

> with the huge plethora of linting and formatting settings, especially that ruff supports, it's really difficult to know which ones you want to enable Very much agreed. This is...

Added some code review comments, but see my comment on #13165 for my broader views.